EU Projects

Women TechEU is a 2-year EU-funded project supporting women leading deep tech startup companies from Europe. Our mission is to create a more gender-balanced entrepreneurship ecosystem. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and we are here to provide women in deep tech with more opportunities, resources, and support to thrive. The project consortium is launching 4 calls for applications over the span of 2 years which, following a rigorous evaluation process, will result in a total of 160 beneficiaries. Each beneficiary will receive €75k grants (non-dilutive finance) as well as a personalised business development programme which includes mentoring, coaching and targeted training among other options

The Ready2Scale project aims to connect Digital and Deep-Tech (DDT) start-up ecosystems, from 14 Widening countries, increasing their engagement with the EIC, national & international offerings and enhancing their capabilities to scale-up outside national borders. Running for 2 years, this project will include 2 open calls for startups, in which 25+ will be selected to receive up to 60,000 euro in funding, a 6 month acceleration programme, market discovery missions, and access to specialised training from our pool of over 100 mentors.

EU-LAC Digital Accelerator aims to contribute to innovation and digital transformation of the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region by generating entrepreneurial projects, developing sound business cases, and accelerating multi-stakeholder and private sector collaboration and joint ventures between European-LAC businesses in digital area.

The general objective of the project ENTREPRENEDU is creating a high replicable and scalable venture building program, an educational model for the European entrepreneurial ecosystems developed via a series of 3 Hackathons, developed at regional level, supporting concepts and ideas to become concrete solutions.

BioNanoPolys is an Innovation test bed for developing safe nano-embedded biobased materials for new advanced applications in sectors such as polymers, packaging, textile, agriculture, cosmetics, pharma, hygiene, food, and additive manufacturing.

Connect2Scale is an EU-funded project dedicated to promote collaboration, knowledge exchange, and strategic partnerships in the entrepreneurial finance landscape. The initiative brings together investors, entrepreneurs, and financial experts to create a dynamic environment for innovation and growth. Through networking opportunities and shared insights as well as a dedicated platform aimed at facilitating cross border investments, named Investment Lighthouses, Connect2Scale aims to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem and promoting investments across Europe.